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Sara Zhao
Mechanical Engineering
Bio-X
Graduate Student Fellowships 2004
Professor Beth Pruitt (Mechanical Engineering)
Graduated 2005
Mechanotransduction, the process by which cells convert mechanical stimuli into cellular signals, is important in many areas of physiology, medicine, and medical device design. The goal of Sara's project was to study the MEC-4 channel complex that mediates sensory mechanotransduction of touch receptor neurons. A biomolecular model would be developed to describe the mechanism of MEC-4 channel complex as mechanoreceptor and its critical role in the whole-cell behavior. |
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